2016 National Foster Care Month Website Now Live

The Children's Bureau, in collaboration with its information service, Child Welfare Information Gateway, launched the 2016 National Foster Care Month website! With this year's theme, "Honoring, Uniting, and Celebrating Families," the website provides free resources and tools to help professionals, parents, caregivers, and youth move closer to family reunification and establish permanent connections.

Here are easy ways you can help support those connections:

• Visit the 2016 National Foster Care Month (NFCM) website.
• Connect parents, youth, foster parents and caregivers, professionals, Tribes, and communities to resources and tools specifically designed to support best practices in foster care.
• Share the inspiring real-life stories of others who've made permanent connections.
• Spread the word on National Foster Care Month by using free outreach materials and share the resources and tools across your network.
• Find State foster care contacts across the nation to work across State and county lines quickly.
• Engage with each other through the NFCM Facebook Campaign Page to promote local events, make new contacts, and share stories.